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By Srian Obeyesekere Sri Lanka’s first Test cricket captain, Bandula Warnapura, while welcoming Sri Lanka Cricket’ staging of the historic Lanka Premier League “which he believed would enable the country’s young latent talent to further evolve their game in making it to the big international stage, said, “The LPL will... The post LPL will up local cricket and mental wellbeing of COVID hit nation –...
Image Courtesy of The Week “Then take us for Gods, as is proper and fit…” Aristophanes (The Birds) A pandemic with no end in sight, an economy that is unravelling, a fiscal abyss,...
[…] The post A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
[…] The post Trump’s Attempted Coup: Neo-Fascism’s Last Warning To All The World; Biden Navigates Treacherous Waters appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
By Srian Obeyesekere Sri Lanka’s first Test cricket captain, Bandula Warnapura, while welcoming Sri Lanka Cricket’ staging of the historic Lanka Premier League “which he believed would enable the country’s young latent talent to further evolve their game in making it to the big international stage, said, “The LPL will... The post LPL will up local cricket and mental wellbeing of COVID hit nation –...
Image Courtesy of The Week “Then take us for Gods, as is proper and fit…” Aristophanes (The Birds) A pandemic with no end in sight, an economy that is unravelling, a fiscal abyss,...
[…] The post A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
[…] The post Trump’s Attempted Coup: Neo-Fascism’s Last Warning To All The World; Biden Navigates Treacherous Waters appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
By Srian Obeyesekere Sri Lanka’s first Test cricket captain, Bandula Warnapura, while welcoming Sri Lanka Cricket’ staging of the historic Lanka Premier League “which he believed would enable the country’s young latent talent to further evolve their game in making it to the big international stage, said, “The LPL will... The post LPL will up local cricket and mental wellbeing of COVID hit nation –...
Image Courtesy of The Week “Then take us for Gods, as is proper and fit…” Aristophanes (The Birds) A pandemic with no end in sight, an economy that is unravelling, a fiscal abyss,...
[…] The post A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
[…] The post Trump’s Attempted Coup: Neo-Fascism’s Last Warning To All The World; Biden Navigates Treacherous Waters appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
The global escalation of commodity prices in the latter part of last decade impacted Sri Lanka’s rice market, with retail prices showing sharp increases for the consumer. The regulatory forces with a ceiling on consumer prices and guaranteed price for paddy did alleviate this problem to some extent. Today it has taken a different turn ...
A salutary reader interest on share market regulation A reader of the previous week’s My View titled ‘SEC: Not a mere watchdog, but a bloodhound mandated to bite’ has raised an important issue with this writer. He has asked the question why it is necessary to have a regulator to police the financial markets and ...
The ‘Yes-Man’ Parasite, a.k.a. HMV The dictionary definition of a ‘pun’: ‘the clever or humorous use of a word that has more than one meaning, or words that have different meanings but sound the same’. The second word of the headline of today’s column is not exactly a pun, but somewhat akin to one, as ...
Playing off India against China and vice versa‘The Great Game’ was the name given to a diplomatic and military tussle between the British and Russian empires during the time of the British Raj in India for influence over what constitutes today’s central Asian states. Commonly known as the ‘Stan states,’ they were located along the ...
Every country must have a socioeconomic model for developing the country and achieving sustainable growth and prosperity. The function of a sound model is to transform aspirations into reality by identifying all that needs to be done to achieve the aspirations. What is prosperity? What do we mean by prosperity for a country? My ...
Rio+20 has come and gone. For some, with June gone, the task may be looking at the flavour of the month for July to prop up different hoardings. The conference was concluded successfully and most of the final photos and comments indicated it was well attended and well run and perhaps well concluded. For sure, ...
A solution for loss-making SOEs? In the USA, a new corporate entity referred to as a Benefit Corporation (B-Corp) has been brought into being. The states of Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia, California and Vermont have legislation which permits companies to combine the profit motive with the purpose of making a positive impact on society and ...
As Sri Lanka-Japan bilateral discourse completes 60 memorable events, Japan has become our seventh largest international trade partner. “The total bilateral trade turnover between the two nations has grown to $ 1,250 m in 2011. Japan, our seventh largest trade partner in 2011, has always been a key trading nation as well as a generous ...
Peter Kropotkin is a Russian revolutionist who has commented in his book ‘The Conquest of Bread’ what he considers to be the weaknesses of the economic systems of capitalism and how poverty and scarcity thrives on. However, Kropotkin did not believe in the theory of state and is known as an anarchist. The issue of ...
Historically, capital markets have played an important role in the development of market economies and therefore the development of efficient regulation of securities too has become increasingly important. While fostering the development of the economy, the capital markets also play
By Cassandra Mascarenhas The biggest mobile forum in the region, the South Asian Mobile Conference was held for the third year in Colombo earlier this week, bringing together some of the world’s top experts in the mobile sphere, developers of the next generation, researchers, academics and policy makers, creating a platform for a chance of ...
n The Scholar who has refused to changeHumanistic approach Dr. Gunadasa Amarasekera, scholar, writer, poet, novelist, social activist and many more, in a special contribution to Professor Buddhadasa Hewavitharana Felicitation Volume Two released last month, has tried to analyse the most recent history of Sri Lanka in the context of the onset of the process ...
Sri Lanka spent Rs. 56 b on above-the-line advertising in 2011 Taking wing to India for meetings is a usual routine for any business leader attached to a multinational in Sri Lanka as most such organisations have their regional offices in India. During a recent visit to India, the hype surrounding IPL – 5th edition ...
Last Sunday when the unknown Ajinkya Rahane scored 103 runs off just 60 balls at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore, which helped the Rajasthan Royals to score a massive 195 runs at IPL season five, my mind went to just one ethos the IPL is all about – highlighting performance. It is how IPL ...
With the recent relaxing of the rupee exchange rate and subsequent increase in fuel prices, trade unions and the opposition parties are conducting protest campaigns against the Government, demanding a reduction in oil prices and the cost of living. This article investigates the living conditions of citizens in the recent past and present, quality and ...
“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision” – Ayn Rand, Russian-American Novelist Queueing for bread Forgotten are the days when people waited in line for two to three hours to buy a loaf of bread; forgotten are the days when rice was not available ...